Ernst Halbmayer
Ernst Halbmayer (born January 26, 1966 in Krems an der Donau ) is an Austrian cultural and social anthropologist and ethnologist working at the Philipps University of Marburg .
Life
Ernst Halbmayer studied sociology and cultural and social anthropology at the University of Vienna . 1991–1992 he conducted his first field research with the Yukpa in Venezuela and received his doctorate in 1997 with Andre Gingrich in cultural and social anthropology with a thesis on the principles of social organization among the Yukpa. Between 1992 and 1997 he was active for the Austrian Society for Threatened Peoples . a. as a board member. From 1994 to 1998 he was an assistant at the University's Institute for Sociology and a freelancer at the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Medical and Health Sociology under the direction of Jürgen Pelikan . From 1999 to 2002 he was an APART scholar of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and worked on a comparative study of Carib-speaking groups in South America a. a. at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie sociale in Paris and at the Department for Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . In 2008 he completed his habilitation with the habilitation thesis Variations of the Multiversum. World differentiation and communication among today's Carib-speaking Indians and in the same year was appointed university professor at the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research at the Philipps University of Marburg and head of the ethnological collection in succession to Mark Münzel . In 2015/16 he was a Senior Fellow of the European Institutes for Advanced Studies (EURIAS) at the Collegium de Lyon. He is a member of the board of directors of the Marburg Center for Conflict Research and executive director of the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research.
Research priorities
Ernst Halbmayer's main research interests include the circum-Caribbean region, where he has carried out extensive field research in Venezuela and Colombia and shorter research in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Panama, Costa Rica and Cuba. Central areas of work include indigenous modernities in Latin America, the social organization and cosmology of Carib- and Chibcha-speaking indigenous groups, as well as environmental and conflict anthropology.
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| SURNAME | Halbmayer, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cultural and social anthropologist and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krems at the Donau |